Scorpions
Scorpiones
General Information
Scorpions are often feared for their painful and venomous stings. They’re typically not aggressive, but will attack if they are accidentally touched or feel threatened. Learn where scorpions live, how to help keep scorpions away, and get tips to help protect your family from these stinging creatures.
- Scorpions are most active at night.
- While many people think of scorpions as desert dwellers, these creatures are equipped with incredible survival skills that enable them to live in a variety of environments. In fact, scorpions are found on every continent in the world, except Antarctica.1
- Scorpions must have water to live, but can survive for months without food.
- Similar to other arachnids like spiders, scorpions have two body regions and eight legs.2
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Additional details
- Scorpions eat other small creatures, including spiders, crickets, centipedes, and caterpillars.3
- Scorpions can be found under rocks, woodpiles, or other debris.
- Indoors, they are often found hiding in dark, secluded areas.
- Scorpions enter your home looking for food, as well as a secluded or quiet place to hide and escape the heat.
- Scorpions are often feared for their venomous and painful stings..
- If stung, seek medical attention immediately, particularly if the pain persists or spreads, or if you experience more serious symptoms like chest pain, labored breathing, difficulty in swallowing, blurred vision, numbness, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal cramps.
- Scientists believe that scorpions glow due to fluorescent material found on their hard, outer shell.4
- Remove places around your home where scorpions like to hide, like rocks, wood mulches, woodpiles, or other debris.
- If you live in an area where scorpions are common, always check your shoes, gloves, sleeping bags, etc. for scorpions before use.
- Help keep scorpions away by sealing gaps where they can enter your home, keeping doors and windows closed, and patching any holes in door and window screens.
Solutions for Scorpions
Kills on contact
Highlights:
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- Available in 12 oz. size.
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*on Cockroaches and Ants on non-porous surfaces such as ceramic and laminate. (Carpenter Ants for up to 12 weeks. Kills by contact.)
Highlights:
Raid® Ant & Roach Killer 26 kills on contact and keeps killing with residual action for up to 13 weeks*.
- It leaves no lingering chemical odor.
- This easy-to-use spray can be applied to surfaces where ants, roaches and other listed bugs may be infesting.
- Available in 12 oz., 17.5 oz. and 20 oz. sizes.
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*on Cockroaches and Ants on non-porous surfaces such as ceramic and laminate. (Carpenter Ants for up to 12 weeks. Kills by contact.)
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*American cockroaches and Argentine ants, and applied on non-porous surfaces
Highlights:
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- Also available in 1 Gallon Refill, 30 oz Trigger Starter and 30 oz Trigger Refill
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Raid® Max Perimeter Protection helps keep listed bugs out and leaves no odor or oily residue (see label for details).
Highlights:
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- Leaves no odor oily residue
- For indoor and outdoor use
- Spray outdoors, around doors, windows, and along your home's foundations
- Spray indoors along floor boards, door and window frames
- Use in hard-to-reach places where long-term control is needed
- Perimeter Protection kills 10x more roaches than the leading competitor* (*Based on 48 hour mortality rates of German and American cockroaches in laboratory testing after five-minute exposure to a one-day aged deposit of product on hardwood plywood panels)
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